Wash #1

Cory and his dad are doing laundry at Speedy Wash. The washing machines cost $1.25 per load and the dryer cost $0.50 per load. Cory and his dad need to wash and dry 4 loads of laundry. Machines at Speedy Wash take only quarters. Find out how many quarters Cory and his dad will need to do their laundry.

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Multiplication, division

Table #1

Lucinda helped her teacher to set up 2 tables for food at the school fair. The tables are touching each other as shown in the picture. What is the length and width of table A? Lucinda is going to decorate the outside edges of the joined tables, except where the tables are touching. What is the perimeter of the joined tables?

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Stars #1

Mark made a pattern by drawing 7 rows of stars. He added more stars to each row, as shown in the table. How many stars will he draw in row 7? If the pattern continues, which row will have 45 stars in it?

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Marks patternRow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Number of stars

1 3 6 10 15

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Numerical pattern

Soda #1

Ms. Starr bought cans of soda packaged in groups of 6 cans each. She bought 6 packages. If Ms. Starr only bought complete packages, how many cans of soda did she buy?

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Multiplication

Skates #1

Mary Ann wants to buy a pair of skates for $55. She has $20 saved in the bank. If she saves $5 every week, how many weekends will it take Mary Ann to save enough money to buy the skates?

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Subtraction, multiplication

Bows #1

Calvin wants to buy enough ribbon to make 7 bows. He needs 60 centimeters of ribbon for each bow. Each roll of ribbon is 200 centimeters long. How many rolls of ribbon will he need to buy to make all 7 bows?

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994

Division, addition

Books #1

Roberto has to read a book that is 84 pages long. He wants to read and equal number of pages each day. How many pages per day would he need to read if he wanted to read the entire book in two days? How many pages per day would he need to read if he wanted to read the entire book in 3 days?

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Division

Bird #1

There were 18 birds on a fence. First, 3 of the birds flew away. Then 7 new birds landed on the fence. How many birds are now on the fence?

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Addition, subtraction

Order #1

Anita’s older sister, Dina, is ordering items from a gift catalog. The first thing she orders is a joke book for 4 dollars. The second thing she orders is a scientific calculator for 17 dollars. The third thing she orders is a box of baseball cards for 12 dollars. If the shipping fee is $1.50, how much money will Dina have spent all together?

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Addition

Notebooks #1

Ray bought 3 notebooks. Each notebook contained 90 sheets of paper. How many sheets of paper did Ray buy in all?

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024

Multiplication

Notebook #1

Mindy is buying a notebook for $1.59. She will give the cashier 2 one-dollar bills. What amount should Mindy get back in change? The cashier will give Mindy her change using the fewest coins possible. What coins will Mindy get back?

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994

Subtraction, coin allocation

Soda #1

Paula timed how long some traffic lights stayed red before changing to green. The graph shows how many seconds the traffic light is at each cross street stayed red. At which cross street is the traffic light red more than 10 seconds but less than 20 seconds?

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Logic, reading graphs

Ice Skating #1

There are 2 more boys than girls in the ice skating contest. There are a total of 10 students in the ice skating contest. How many girls are in the ice skating contest?

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Driving #1

The Andersons drove for two days to get to the mountains. When they left home, the total number of miles on their car was 4783. When they arrived at the mountain, the total number of miles on their car was 5064. The Andersons drove 128 miles the first day, how many miles did they drive on the second day?

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994

Subtraction

Doughnuts #1

There are112 Doughnuts in the display case at Dorothy’s Bakery. The bakery sells jelly, chocolate, and glazed doughnuts. If there are 24 jelly doughnuts and 33 chocolate doughnuts in the display case, how many glazed doughnuts are in the display case?

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Addition, subtraction

Craft Sticks #1

Tina has 3 craft sticks. Tina and Dan together have 5 craft sticks. Dan and Sally together have 7 craft sticks. How many craft sticks does Sally have?

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4Logic

Cookies #1

Zakir made white sugar cookies and dark chocolate cookies. There are 5 dark chocolate cookies and 7 white sugar cookies. What fractional part of the cookies are sugar? Zakir passed the cookies around to his friends. Jason took a chocolate cookie and Tina, Kelly, and Ray each took a sugar cookie. What fractional part of the cookies left are chocolate cookies?

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Cookies #2

Erin has 18 cookies. She gave 3 cookies to each of her friends. She gave cookies to 6 friends. Al has 12 cookies, and wants to divide the cookies equally among each of his 3 friends. How many cookies will each of Al’s friends receive?

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4Division

Cookies #1

Kari and Jason are baking cookies for their 2 fourth grade classes at school. Each class has 26 students. How many cookies should they bake to give 3 cookies to each student?

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024

Division

Color #1

3 sections of a spinner are white. 4 sections of a spinner are black. 1 section of a spinner is gray. What is the probability that the arrow will land on black?

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004

Probability

Collections #1

Ann collects rocks. She has 4 boxes of rocks with 20 rocks in each box. Then she gave 6 of her rocks to a friend. How many rocks does Ann have left now?

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4Multiplication, subtraction

Coins #1

Sandra’s mother gave her 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and 1 nickel. Sandra kept 55 cents and gave the rest of the coins to her sister. Which coins could Sandra have given to her sister?

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4Logic, coin allocation

Circus #1

Mr. Schwartz and his children are going to the circus. Children circus tickets cost $2.25. Adult circus tickets cost $3.50. How much will Mr. Schwartz pay for tickets to take himself and his 2 children to the circus?

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4Addition

Charity #1

Mrs. Navarro’s class bought food for the adopt a family program. They spent $127.68. The 19 students divided the cost equally. How much did each student contribute?

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4Division

Cards #1

Makoto has a collection of 100 trading cards. He gives 15 cards to his best friend. Makoto then gives 10 of the cards he has left to his brother. What percentage of Makoto’s collection of trading cards did he give away?

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034

Subtraction, percentage

Cans #1

Jan, Clayton and Maxine are collecting cans for recycling. Their goal is to collect 1,500 cans. Jan has collected 568 cans. Maxine has collected 314 cans. Clayton has collected 375 cans. How many more cans do they need to collect to reach their goal of 1,500 cans?

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Cabinets #1

Jan’s office contains 12 file cabinets. Three cabinets have 4 drawers; all of the other cabinets have 5 drawers. Han is now typing new labels for each file cabinet drawer. How many labels will she need?

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4Multiplication

Buttons #1

Colin put some buttons on a table. There were 4 blue buttons, 5 red buttons, 7 tan buttons, and 8 white buttons. Colin’s cat jumped up and knocked 1 button onto the floor. What is the probability that the button of the floor was blue?

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Probability

Buttons #2

John needs 100 buttons to complete his art project. He has 80 buttons. What percentage of the hundred buttons does John have so far?

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4Percentage

Build this 2

Each of the blue blocks shares a face with the green block. There are two yellows, two blues, one green and one red in the set of blocks. One of the yellow blocks is above the green block; the other is below it. There are 6 blocks in all forming a tower 6 blocks high. There is a yellow block on top. The red block is above the green block. No two blocks of the same color touch each other.

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Build It Between

The green cube is between the orange cube and the yellow cube. The red cube is between the purple cube and the green cube. The orange cube is between the green cube and the red cube. The blue cube is between the green cube and the yellow cube. The yellow and the purple cubes are not between any cubes. Every cube is a different color from the others.Build this row of 6 cubes!

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Shapes #2

My height is the perpendicular distance between opposite sides. My area is equal to base time height. My diagonals are perpendicular. I am a quadrilateral. I am a parallelogram.

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4Logic

Shapes #1

I have 5 points. I also have 5 equal sides. I can be found within a baseball diamond. I am famous in Washington D.C. What shape am I?

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4Logic

Seeds #1

Jerome put 4 pounds of sunflower seeds in his bird feeder Sunday. On Friday, the bird feeder was empty, so Jerome put 4 more pounds of seed in it. The following Sunday the seeds were half gone. How many pounds of sunflower seeds were consumed by the birds that week?

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4Addition, fractions

Seats #1

A section of the school auditorium is set up so that each row has the same number of seats. Cheri is seated in the seventh row from the back and the eighth row from the from of this section. Her seat is the fourth from the right and seventh from the left. How many seats are in the section?

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4Addition, logic, counting

Science #1

Jessica went to the park to do a science project. She tallied the number of animals she saw during 5 minutes. The chart shows the numbers and types of animals Jessica saw. Using the information from the table, make a bar graph to show all the animals Jessica saw.

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Animals in the ParkAnimal NumberBird 7Squirrel 3Dog 2Butterfly 1

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Drawing bar graphs

Rocks #1

Kyle, Lee, and Melissa collected 14 rocks for science class. Kyle has few rocks than Lee. How many rocks do Kyle and Melissa have?

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Rocks CollectedName Rocks

KyleLee 5

MelissaTotal 14

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Logic, subtraction

Renee #1

Renee was born in 1933. She wants to know in what year she will have her 21st birthday. In what year will Renee turn 21? In Renee’s birthday in 2005, Renee’s father will be 4 times as old as Renee. How old will Renee’s father be?

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Addition, subtraction, multiplication

Puppies #1

Ahmed’s dog has 8 puppies. Each puppy was either all black, all tan or all white. There were twice as many white puppies at tan puppies. There are 2 black puppies. How many white puppies did Ahmed’s dog have?

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4Logic, multiplication, subtraction

Posters #2

Donald has 3 more posters than Lyn. Donald has 6 posters. Write a number sentence that shows the number of posters Lyn has.

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Number sentences

Posters #1

Harriet had 3 more posters that Brooke. Brooke has 4 posters. Write a number sentence that shows the number of posters Harriet has.

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034

Number sentences

Plane #1

A Boeing 747-300 jet carries 342 passengers with 36 in first class and the rest in coach. Suppose the first class ticket to fly from Los Angeles to Chicago cost $750 and a coach ticket cost $450. What are the great possible ticket sales on the flight?

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4Multiplication, addition

Pieces #3

Luke has 3 train cars. They are labeled A, B, and C. What is the total number of different ways he can arrange the 3 train cars?

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Logic

Pieces #2

Luke and Sadie want to buy signs for the toy train set. There are 8 signs in Box A and 12 signs in Box B. Which box has the lower price for each sign?

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004

Multiplication

Pieces #1

There are 32 pieces of train track. Luke put together 12 pieces. Sadie put together 7 pieces. How many pieces are left to put together?

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004

Addition

Pencils #1

There are 157 students in the fourth grade. On the first test, 9 students were absent. Each student taking the test was given 2 pencils. What was the total number of pencils given to the students who took the test that day?

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Subtraction, multiplication

Word Problem #20

There are four more boys than girls on the race team. All fifteen boys were qualified to race on Saturday. Six girls are qualified to race on Saturday; the rest will race on Sunday. How many girls will be in the race on Sunday?

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4Subtraction

Word Problem #16

There are 2 lines. Line AB has a point in common with line CD. Point M is in the middle of line CD. There are 5 points all together. Draw the lines and the 5 points.

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4Scale drawings

Word Problem #15

There are 3 lines. Line AB and CD are parallel. Point E and F are between points A and B. Line GH intersects both lines through points F and K. Point K is in the middle of line DC. Draw the 3 lines.

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Word Problem #10

Carlos lives in city A. Ming lives in city B. Sarah lives in city C. How many more tornados did Carlos see then Ming and Sarah together?

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4Addition

Word Problem #1

Jamie found a sweater at the mall for $21. 70. Jamie found the same sweater on the internet with a $3.90 discount. The shipping charge was $3.50. How much money would Jamie save?

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4Subtraction

Whole Numbers #1

The number has three digits in it. The ones place number is an even number. The number in the tens place is the number of cans of soda in a six pack. The number in the hundreds place is half the number in the tens place. One of the digits is an odd number.

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4Logic

Water #1

Davis pours 5 gallons of water into a tank of water. Then Carlos adds 8 gallons more to the tank. The tank now contains 32 gallons of water. How many gallons were in the tank before David added water?

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4Addition, subtraction

Violin #1

Emma wants to practice playing her violin for a total of 90 minutes over 4 days. She practiced her violin for 30 minutes on Monday. She practiced for 18 minutes on Tuesday. She practiced for 25 minutes on Wednesday. How many minutes should Emma practice on Thursday?

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4Addition, subtraction

Train #1

Model railroads are scaled down replicas of real trains. One of the most popular modeling size is HO, where 1 inch on the model represents 87 inches on the real train. A HO model of a modern diesel locomotive is 8 inches long. How long is the real locomotive?

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4Multiplication

Tents #1

The school planning committee wants to rent as many tents as they can for the spring fair. The Rent-a-roof Company charges $325 for the first 3 tents and $125 for each additional tents. The committee has $600 to spend on tents. What is the maximum number of tents it can rent?

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4Subtraction, division

Sweater #1

A store doubled its cost to determine the price of a sweater. Two months later the sweater was marked down $10.00. A week later the price was cut in half and the sweater sold for $12.52. How much did the store pay for the sweater?

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4Subtraction, multiplication, fractions

Statue #1

Fantasyland in Iraan, Texas features giant statues of comic strip characters. If you multiply Dinny the Dinosaur’s height by 4 and add 1 foot you will find his length. If the statue of Dinny is 65 feet long, how tall is it?

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4Height, length

Sport #1

One hundred students were asked to name their favorite sport. The chart below shows the result of this poll. What percentage of students chose soccer as their favorite sport? What percentage of the total group did not choose soccer as their favorite sport?

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Favorite sportSport # of

studentsBaseball 20Basketball 15Soccer 35Football 30Total 100

4Percentage

Bread #1

Adam and Renee have invited friends to dinner on a Saturday evening. They would like to make bread to serve with dinner at 6:30 p.m. The bread takes 30 minutes to mix, two hours to rise, 40 minutes to bake and 30 minutes to cool. What time should they start if they want to get it done by 6:30 p.m.?

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4Addition

Bookstore #1

At a school bookstore, a pen costs $0.28, and a small writing tablet cost $0.23. What combination of pens and tablets could you buy for exactly $0.74?

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4Addition

Books #3

In the library, there are 2 round tables. There are 3 students sitting at each table. Each student has 4 books. Find the total number of books.

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4Multiplication, addition

Betty’s House #1

Mark has to be at Betty’s house at 6:30 p.m. It is 15 minute walk from his house to hers. Before he can leave he has to mow the lawn, which will take 45 minutes, and spend 30 minutes getting ready. He needs to do homework before mowing the lawn. If he gets home from school at 3:30 p.m., how long does he have for homework?

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4Addition, subtraction

Word Problem #9

There were 12 tornadoes reported during May. May has twice the number of tornadoes than reported for April, but June topped all of them. June had two more tornadoes than May. How many tornadoes were reported in all that year from April through June?

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4Multiplication, addition

Word Problem #8

Every day of the week Marc delivers the same number of newspapers except on Sundays. On Sundays Marc delivers 196 papers. The total number of papers delivered for the week is 616. How many papers does he deliver on a week day?

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4Subtraction, division

Word Problem #7

Lila started writing her first page of a news letter at 8:00 in the morning. She finished the first page at 9:30 a.m. She has four more pages left to write. At this rate, how long will it take to complete the assignment?

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4Addition, subtraction, multiplication

Word Problem #6

No more Room. There are 5 chairs and 6 students. Tom is sitting next to Jane. John is in the first chair. Kevin is sitting next to Steven and Jane. Steven is in the last chair. Anne is next to Steven. Who is standing?

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4Logic

Word Problem #4

Missing the coin. The first coin is a quarter. The second coin is more than 5 cents, but less than twenty five cents. There are five coins all together. The 3rd coin is the same as the 2nd coin. The last coin is twenty cents less than the first coin. The total of all the coins equals fifty five cents. What is the fourth coin?

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4Logic, addition, subtraction

Word Problem #3

Money for keeps. There are five coins. Three of the coins add up to fifteen cents. The total amount of all the coins equals forty-one cents. What are the five coins?

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4Logic, money, subtraction

Word Problem #21

43 students tried out for the school play. 8 students will have a large part in the play. Three other students will have a main part. The rest of the students in the play will be farm animals. What fraction of the students will play farm animals?

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4Addition, subtraction, fractions

Movies #1

Tony and his friends bought some snacks at a movie theatre. Popcorn cost $2.25, a Candy bar cost $1.20, a cold drink cost $1.39, Nachos cost $3.69, a hot dog cost $2.07 and a lemonade cost $0.99. Which items did Tony and his friends buy if together they spent exactly $8.00 and bought one of each items they selected.

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4Addition, subtraction

Miles #1

A rental agency charges $52 per day for a car. The first 100 miles are free but any miles after that cost $0.32 each. Ms. Misel rented a car for 3 days, and the rental fee was $237.60. How many miles did Ms. Misel drive?

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4Division

Medicine #1

Your doctor has written you a prescription and instructs you to take the 29 pills until they are gone. You’re supposed to take 4 for the first 2 days and 3 per day thereafter. How long will you take the pills after the first two days?

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4Division

Markers #1

Monica has two erasers. She has 5 more pencils than erasers. She has 3 fewer markers than pencils. How many markers does Monica have?

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4Logic

Marbles # 1

There are 4 black marbles in a bag. There are 3 white marbles in the same bag. Jack will choose one marble from the bag with out looking. What is the probability he will choose a black marble?

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4Probability

Library #1

On Monday Marty checked out 12 books from the library. On Tuesday Marty returned ½ of the books to the library. On Wednesday he returned ½ of the remaining books. What fraction of the books that Marty checked out has he returned to the Library?

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4 Fractions

Jog #1

Vince lives on the corner of Elm and 1st street. He likes to jog around his block. He goes down 1st street, which is 400 ft. long, turns left and goes down Main Street, which is 400 ft. long, turns left and goes down 2nd avenue, which is 400 ft. long, turns left and goes down Elm Street which is 400 ft. long. If Vince jogged around the block 4 times, how many feet has he jogged?

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4Addition, subtraction

Job #1

Three school jobs are posted on the job board. The first job pays $5.15 per hour for 15 hours of work each week. The second job pays $10.95 per day for 2 hours of work, 5 days a week. The third job pays $82.50 for 15 hours of work each week. If you want to apply for the best paying job, which job should you choose?

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4Multiplication

Jeans #1

A store tripled the price it paid for a pair of jeans. After a month, the jeans were marked down $5.00. Two weeks later the price was divided in half. Finally, the price was reduced by $3.00 and the jeans sold for $14.99. How much did the store pay for the jeans?

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4Division, subtraction

Field Trip #1

Mrs. Jamillo led her fourth grade class on a field trip. They walked 2 miles in a straight line from their school to the museum. They wanted to turn right and walk another 2 miles. Later that returned to their school by the same route. How many miles did they walk in total?

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4Addition

Eggs #1

Every morning Julie collects the newly laid eggs from the chickens on her family’s farm. On Monday, Julie collected 29 eggs. She put the eggs in cartons that hold 12 eggs each. How many more eggs does she need to completely fill her last carton?

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4Division, subtraction

Dance #1

Helene is recording a practice tape for her dance students. She will include rumbas, waltzes, and one samba. Each rumba is 3 minutes long, each waltz, 4 minutes; and the samba, 2 minutes long. The tape will contain 30 minutes of music. If Helene wants to record at least 2 waltzes, how many songs of each type will she include in the collection?

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4Addition

Data # 1

Georgiana is collecting data on the growth of E. coli bacteria. Each E. coli cell reproduces by dividing in half every 20 minutes. If Georgiana starts with one E. coli cell, how many cells will be in the sample after 120 minutes?

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4division

Distances #1

The distance between Alicia’s house and Paquita’s house is 1,600 feet. If it takes Alicia 3 seconds to walk 10 feet, how long will it take her to walk to Paquita’s house?

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4multiplication, division

Dowels #1

Geraldo has dowel pieces measuring 10 inches and 11 inches long. He places a number of pieces end-to-end. They form a line of 76 inches long. How many pieces of each size dowel does he have?

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4addition

Dragon #1

Eric uses molten pewter to make dragon shaped key chains. Each dragon weighs 2 ounces. How many dragons can Eric make if he uses 1.5 pounds of molten pewter? 16 ounces = 1 pound

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4division

Darts #1

Harry played a game of darts. He threw 12 darts at the target. The numbers show how many points are earned for each dart that lands in that area. The X’s show where the darts landed. What was Harry’s total score?

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